Who were the Huns that invaded India?
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- The Kidarite Huns who settled in the region of Bactria were the first Huns who invaded the Indian subcontinent. In this video, I discuss the early history of the Huns and how the Kidarites went on to establish their rule in Bactria and Gandhara.
Reference:-
1. The Alkan A Hunnic People in South Asia by Hans T Bakker
2. The Political History of the Hunas in India by Atreyi Biswas
3. The Steppe World and the Rise of the Huns by Etienne de la Vaissière
4. History of Civilization of Central Asia Vol 3
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People like you are much needed in today’s India where history has become a mockery for common people and weapon for politicans
Thank you for talking about Indian history, it doesn't get talked about enough compared to European or Chinese history and yet its so fascinating. Hope your channel continues to grow
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@JayVardhanSingh bro can u tell me which decade were huns invasions happened in india and how many times?
and in which decade was takshashila destroyed and the university brought down?
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Jay sir, you are putting out truly golden content. My clarity on south Asian history has never been clearer, and your objective clarity is stupendously good.
If you would like to ever put some paintings/visuals to any specific pet project, feel free to hit me up.
Thank you.
And thanks for the offer. Will certainly let you know.
Looking forward to the next one
Thank you for sharing
Really, really nice video. I like that you included your references in the video description - maybe you could try also inserting some direct quotes from specific scholars so we can get a sense of the different types of opinions that are out there?
thanks for your suggestion. In some of my videos, I do include opinions of specific scholars. But in videos like these it is hard to do that as opinions are many. I've another channel, Historically speaking where I go in depth in particular topics. There I also include opinions of different scholars. Do check it.
Excellent video
Very informative video, thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Outstanding video.
Thank you!
Thanks . Your explanation seems to be without any bias
Very good knowledge please continue don't ignore historically speaking channel in future (if u focus on one channel please don't discontinue longer versions)i like in deapth research. Factually correct and detailed knowledge is a great service to nation u have my gratitude for that
Thanks for the kind words. I haven't ignore the Historically Speaking channel. You will see a new video on this channel in the next week.
@@JayVardhanSingh who are desdandants of the kidarites
Great video. I would love to see more videos on the nomadic invaders of the subcontinent.
Thanks.
I've already covered Indo-greeks, Scythians, Parthians and Kushan. You can check that as well.
Nice job...
Doing really a great work 🔥👍🏻
Thanks!!
I appreciate and respect your objectivity. So many of us are willing to blindly accept speculation as fact simply because it receives a stamp of approval. The study of history should be a presentation of evidence, not a compilation of assumptions.
Infact this is why I like this channel. He provides sources from where we got the information rather than just giving us information so we can think for ourselves what might've actually happened. Most history channel would just feed us one particular information without telling us about alternate theories and the sources of all the theories so we just get sure of something without knowing its just an assumption
Thank you 🙏
Huns must be originally from Kazakhstan. This country has issued a commemorative coin in the honour of the hun king Attila, in 2009.
Huns invaded europe and india
Also thry were turks so you are right
Great informative video 🌿
Also , ur super damn cute ❤️
Nice ❤️
8:08= One of the Saka huns branch , the kush or kash huns people who give the place name of kash emir people ( saka huns branch mixed with kush - kash -> kushita - kashita huns ) .
Yes, because of the climate. In primary school, we have learnt due to weather we didn't have much to eat except horse milk, Kefir etc. So we have started moving to look for food in the process ....
Great vedio as always.by the way were the hunds practiced Hinduism?
The descendants of the shveta Hunas are most probably amongst the Pashtun clans. Abdali Pashtuns are descendants of shveta hunas as confirmed by many scholars.
Not possible, Pashtuns speak an Iranic language, their genetic pool is like 50 % Iranic and 50 % Indian(which includes Ancestry from IVC , Ancestry from Onge tribals and some amount of Indo Aryan ancestry) .
The word Abdali is corrupted form of Ebodalo. The word Ebodalo in Bactrian means Hepthalite Huns.
@@rishavkumar1250 They are all probably intermixed due to inter tribal marriages.
@@jyotirmayamohanty5723 it's all conjecture
@@jyotirmayamohanty5723
Why not odiyana
Mohanty
You are odiya
You don't know about Jat cast
They are beda and bediyan
Heptal was a king not abodalo
Abdali are also a Jat community
(Chuwadar) choudhary
Hi, than you, its so interesting but I was wondering if u could give me some sources to explain the difference between the Hephthlatites and Alchon Huns. Thank u very much ma g
8:42= Kitara = kitörő : the branch who did fight with unusual way , the widening ( spreading wide , to catch the enemy like with nets the fish ) teritory fighters . Also , Kitara music : unsual music .
Please make more videos on this topic
Yes, I will make multiple videos on this topic.
Thanks
thank you!
I did a dna test I am from
Kashmir my ancestors come from the Hepthalite Huns who mixed with the Gujarat natives we where prama rajput then becomes sohlin rajput
where in kashmir are you from?
huns are tibetan.
even tibetan dogs have european dna.
This was highly informative and helped me a lot so Cheers mate.
Also could you come up with a topic of Rajputs?
Thank you.
I'll make videos on them also. I am moving chronologically so it will take some time.
Great video!
I have an unrelated question: Are Jadunath Sarkar's works still relevant for reading more about Mughal history and adminsitration? If not, can you recommend a good reference for the same?
Thanks.
Yes, they certainly are. Apart from it you can also read Power, Administration and Finance in Mughal India by John F Richards.
My understanding is that the relationship between Xiong-nu and Huns is ambiguous at best. Can they be called Eastern Iranian Huns ? If yes , are they different from Huns of Europe or Xiong-nu for that matter ? Looking forward to your reply. Thank you very much 🙏
Please also make a vedio on last kushans
cool
I think these people are related to Gurjars, who always claim their ancestry to two groups: Kushans and Huns.
The coin evidence you mentioned around 6:00 already points that Hunas viewed Kushans as their ancestors....called themselves Kushanshah and Lesser-Yuechis. Gurjar-Pratihar Kingdom suddenly appeared post the invasion of Hunas in Western India, Sindh, Punjab.
The fact that Hunas never called themselves Hunas is also interesting, because they are called Gurjars in Banabhatta's Harshacharita while the writer (paid by Gupta) is mentioning about fight between Hunas and Guptas. He also mentions their place as Gurjardesa somewhere in the text. In that text the following is written: "A lion to the Huna deer, a burning fever to the King of Sindhudesa, a troubler of the sleep of Gurjara King".
Interestingly, Kushan and Hoon are big surnames among Gurjar people around Delhi/Meerut.
How is it concluded that the title of kushanshah adopted by the Huns settled in Bactria automatically translates to successor of the Kushans instead of the Huns claiming to be Kushans themselves .
I feel the Chinese sources which you've quoted are more accurate in this regard with them calling these peoples the lesser Yuezchi there by linking them to the Kushans.
BTW - well presented topic as usual. Highly appreciated. In Particular the topic of the Huns & their interactions with both Iran & India is poorly understood in India & perhaps also Iran & which hasn't quite received the traction it's received in the West particularly in the Huns vs the Romans or Attila the Hun - case in point .
I wonder how much has this got to do with little documentation of historical records in Iranic & Indic sources as compared to Western sources .
BTW - I once read that the Huns rule & raids over North & Central India especially the North West aka what's now the KPK & Pakistani Punjab was as devastating if not more as that of the Turco Afghans in the 2nd millennium CE except that we lack complete records of the depth of the gravity of the situation.
The only difference being while those Huns were Indianised with time whereas those Turco Afghans who followed changed the culture & religion of the North West & later both the North & East / North East of India.
The same writer argues that the whole of the NW especially the Kabul Zabul Ghazni Kandahar axis was so unstable with the Indic religion & culture unable to establish firm roots for paucity of time that when the Arabs struck from Seistan Balochistan / Khorasan Iran conversion to Islam though tough initially wasn't too difficult or prolonged.
For perspective the last major Hun attacks was in the first half of the 6th century. Hence while Banabhatta in his Harshacharita refers to the perennial problem the Huns posed to North India composed in the first quarter of the 7th century CE they weren't on the scale of what N India encountered before. Shortly after Harsha's death & dissolution of his empire the Arab conquest of what's now Eastern Iran & western Afghanistan was undertaken.
adopting the title of Kushan Shah and also imitating their coins certainly point in that direction.
Even other sources, for example Armenian sources, describe them as Kushanas.
huns are tibetan
@@firstnamelastname1002nonsense
5:30= on the coin = the hun symbol , above the head crown : 3 piramid " montain " -> even in today's hungary's flag symbol : 3 piramid " montain " [ hun+gary , raryans -> garmada = many kind of huns ! ] . Varahran , almost understandable in hungarian language , and Bahrãn is a country , with the titel of the king and his kingdom , simular meaning of varahran . Etc...
I am from Kaushambi and I didnt knew about 'Hunaraja' fact.
Great video as always!
I think it will wonderful if you make video about the kabul shahi kingdom as well. Who are said to be successors of the huns.
Thank you!!
Yes, will certainly do a video on this topic.
@@JayVardhanSingh were the indians huns migrated in subcontient
I think the iranic origin is more plausible. Iranic tribes seem to have extended well into and past the tarim and migrated into the south altai as well.
Bro could you also tell me about the books or sources ,you used
I've mentioned it in the description. Please take a look.
Oh my Goth here come the Huns.
7:10= kidara huns = in hungarian : kétúr hunok : one , the warlord , and the other as for the people , that person ruled the warlord or warlords .
Hi jay ,was takshashila was part of Gupta Empire
I don't think so, I have not found any convincing evidence that support this view.
@@JayVardhanSingh Jay bhai ,I have read in wikipedia that taxila was outpost of kumargupta
Can you also Do a Video on Burmese Invasion of Assam and Manipur where 85% of the population was Killed and 3 Lack were taken as slaves.
sir make a video on nalanda University, how it was sacked
Have already made a video on it.
th-cam.com/video/pQa1S6B_MUU/w-d-xo.html
Fun fact chandra gupta gave his daughter for marriage alliance
Where are the Huns now in Indian society who invaded India in ancient period.Which social Verna they belong now? Please throw some light on this aspect.
Kshatriya Varna
Here living amongst you! People with gotra Hoon we are a part of every social strata
Huns people are also described in BHAVISHYA PURAN by LORD SHIV
8:25= Fu-lou-sha = faludzsa in Irak ! Falú [ in magyar - hungarian language ] the place where max 5-10 thausend people living - " village - small town " .
What kind of religion ,languagge, culture,they used to follow?
Seems like the various types of Sakas there were several types of Hunas that historians are having a hard time telling apart.
Sir plzz hindi me bhi banaya kijiye videos
Please do martial arts history in india
Yeah true it would be interesting if he would do
I couldn't find any sources on that. Will make a video on it once I find sufficient sources.
"दस्युओं एवं अनार्यों को स्थानच्युत करो। मैं हूणवंशीय गौतम के मधुरवचनों वाले स्तोत्र से स्तुति करता हूं।"
Rigveda
Doing good but few points u should repair.
Jay Vardhan, please remove those books about Hitler from the shelve (it looks very controversial). Thank You for the very interesting historical channels about India
Please read the books before commenting.
does Hungary (the country) have anything to do with Huns?
And do the rajputs or jaats have anything to with Huns?
It could be that the elites at one time in Hungary were from Hunic origin. But we still don't know much about that.
About Rajputs or Jaats being of Hunic origing. I don't think so.
@@JayVardhanSingh how ? Jats are not hunaic origin.
But rajputs have
Rajputs do not have any significant Central Asian ancestry.
@@aaryameena source?
@@aaryameena rajput indian breed ,gond bheel,meeena harijan ,south indian people, huns Cantrell asian people huns and gujjar dono ek hai mere gotra hun kabile se hi nikla hua hai aur me look like Cantrell asian hi lagta hu
Hun= cuman kipchak from Dasht-i- kipchak.
I'm Kipchak from Afghanistan 🇦🇫 and I love all my Kipchaks peoples around the world 🤘🤘🤘
Huns are none other than Chauhans of Bharat, descendants of Lava the son of Ram. In the same blood Prithviraj Chauhan was born. I am studying this closely and am ready for a discussion.
Please Don't mix mythologye with history 😂
Pseudo historian Gyan mat chodo acting pe dhyan do😂
@@user-lm8zd9kd1w OK sir. Jaise aap bolenge.
Sir
Can you give details for your study ?
Love India from hungary🙏
Huns that time had over 50 branches , devided color & geographie = Black huns : north huns ; Blue huns : eastern huns ; Red huns : soutern huns [ -> went to india with saka huns ] ; White huns : western huns . Etc...
Were Gurjars one of tribes that Huns encountered during their migration and came into India with them ???
I think these people are indeed related to Gurjars, who always claim their ancestry to two groups: Kushans and Huns.
The coin evidence mentioned around 6:00 already points that Hunas viewed Kushans as their ancestors....called themselves Kushanshah and Lesser-Yuechis. Gurjar-Pratihar Kingdom also suddenly appeared post the invasion of Hunas in Western India, Sindh, Punjab.
The fact that Hunas never called themselves Hunas is also interesting, because they are called Gurjars in Banabhatta's Harshacharita while the writer (paid by Gupta) is mentioning about fight between Hunas and Guptas. He also mentions their place as Gurjardesa somewhere in the text. In that text the following is written: "A lion to the Huna deer, a burning fever to the King of Sindhudesa, a troubler of the sleep of Gurjara King".
Interestingly, Kushan and Hoon are big surnames among Gurjar people around Delhi/Meerut.
The Gupta Empire had been weakened by the attacks of the Indo-Hephthalites, known in India as the Hunas, towards the end of the 5th century, which caused it to break up into smaller states. Yasodharman Virk defeated a Huna army in 528, which checked the Huna expansion in India. Twin monolithic pillars at Sondani in Mandsaur District were erected by Yasodharman as a record of his victory. [1]
During the reign of Kumaragupta I his feudatory Bandhuvarman ruled over Mandasor as it was a major Centre of western Malwa. He belonged to the Aulikara family which perhaps ruled there up to the beginning of the sixth century A.D. Two stone pillar inscriptions from Mandasor in Madhya Pradesh, one of which is dated in 532 A.D., refer to a powerful king Yasodharman. One of these inscriptions reports the victories of Yasodharman. The inscription describes him as the victor of all those lands which had not been subdued even by the Guptas. But the names of the defeated powers have not been mentioned except that of Mihirkula. It appears that Yasodharman rose to power in about 528 A.D. and continued to rule till 532 A.D., (the date of Mandasor inscription) but by 543 A.D. his power must have been eclipsed.
Ek aur Jhaat aa gaya 😂😂😂
Har koi jhaat hai 😂
Interestingly the Hun and the Indian flags are both red-white-green.
10:13= 389 AD .
Brother I love all your videos but please make video about pathans history where they come from. Big love from Pakistan ❤🇵🇰
6:30= Kusanshah -> Kun shah = We have here in hungary , many Kun's . In history study i came to this conclusion = alway split up all wanderer people to europe , the leavers , and the stayers , basicly , " just in case , if some distroying us , at least the stayingbranch can surviving or wiseversa . Etc...
*The Huns are a faction from Xiongnu.
Ajay Jarto Huna, Jats defeated the Huns.
Bilkul bhai ajay jarto hunan ..jato ne huno ko haraya ..I am proud ..I am jat ...jat is indo aryan nasal .and higest steppe in south asia
The wiki page on Kaushambhi does not even mention destruction by Hunas. Is it a disputed thing? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosambi?wprov=sfla1
Kushans and Iranian Huns from Kashmir
Huns is Mongol 5 Sadhi
Nice topic. Kindly stop shaking hands as the same is disturbing. Thank you.
Huns are from mongolai that's why china builted great wall to protect from these barbaian. Han vs hun
Bro Are rajputs from indian origin Or from other region?
Mixed
Early rajputs are mix like partihars but later are not
Sir aren't you wrong? Huns invaded India during the regime of Skandagupta and got defeated
Bahubali 1 me jo ek kalakeya tribe thi vo lagra hoons ki copy hai.
source please?
@@ayush7745 mujhe aisa laga ki movie bna ne walo ne hoons ki copy ki hai, Yashodharama MP ka tha aur mahishmati bhi MP me hai.
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Huns to white the
They are dravidan
Kanisko murti is head less. History where.
It's said that Muslim invaders used foul play to gain advantage in wars. And that Mohammed Chisti poisoned Wells before invading India. Are these claims true?
yes......scorched earth policy was very commonly used by muslim & christian armies........ hindus always used to follow the protocol of war which their enemies didn't thus invaders were at advantage
@@jackal_sniperr No. Turns out that Hindu kings were sold out and ratted by the priestly class. So that they could secure Muslim patronage. These priests not only revealed the state military secrets and other vile tricks to destroy Hindu . In retrospect Hinduism is more of a psy op to destroy Buddhism, than an actual religion.
After another 2000 years people will study how people lived in 2023 😊😅
White hun empire like gokturk empire are Turkic empire hun were Chinese when turkic takeover call them white hun
They are not turkic so don't try claim other people. They are kushans in origin
we are the huns, hungarian magyars
No, you need to refine your logic, Xingnu or yeuzhi were the people lived in inner mongolia and constantly fought with chinese. gradually, they left inner monglia as Kushans, Huns left that regions one after the other. they were driven out by Turks who were like siberian mongols. this is the reason Huns do not look like chinese or mongols. Also, check the migration of 5 indian tribes after Mahabharata where 3 tribes wernt northward and two went westward.
Why not you do some reading. Most of your facts are wrong.
Xiongnu and Yeuzhis are two different groups. Watch my Kushan video to learn more about them.
Also Kushans belonged to the Yeuzhis, they were not separate groups.
Your third point is also incorrect. Huns (especially those that invaded the West) had East Asian features. We can see that in face reconstructions. So if the Huns that invaded India were one branch of the original group that migrated from the Altai mountains then it would be fair to assume that they also had East Asian features.
huns are tibetan
Kammilio
Huns are today. Gujjar
Hunnu
Nunnu 😂
Los Vedas dicen que Los Hunas, son el origen de los Alemanes y Rusos✍️✨🕉️✨
Where r u from?
@@Rohittarkar175 Panamá
@@xxrxx108 r u interested in hinduism?
With full due respect plz control your hand gestures
will keep in mind, thanks!
Hun + kushana = Gurjar at present
I think these people are indeed related to Gurjars, who always claim their ancestry to two groups: Kushans and Huns.
The coin evidence mentioned around 6:00 already points that Hunas viewed Kushans as their ancestors....called themselves Kushanshah and Lesser-Yuechis. Gurjar-Pratihar Kingdom also suddenly appeared post the invasion of Hunas in Western India, Sindh, Punjab.
The fact that Hunas never called themselves Hunas is also interesting, because they are called Gurjars in Banabhatta's Harshacharita while the writer (paid by Gupta) is mentioning about fight between Hunas and Guptas. He also mentions their place as Gurjardesa somewhere in the text. In that text the following is written: "A lion to the Huna deer, a burning fever to the King of Sindhudesa, a troubler of the sleep of Gurjara King".
Interestingly, Kushan and Hoon are big surnames among Gurjar people around Delhi/Meerut.
Rajputs are descended from white Huns ?
No. It's a very simplistic assumption considering Rajputs as homogenous.
@@stormshadow5283 yes but the main branches like Agnivanshis are maybe Hunnic descents, mostly of western & central India.
@@nav9005 no they are mostly descended of initially powerful non Kshatriya samanta clans who later on assumed Kshatriya status most likely via performing the Hiranyagarbha ritual
@@stormshadow5283 I've read accounts on the oral history of Bhatti Rajputs on the net which contain vivid memories of them in Ghazni being forced to migrate in waves escaping the Arab invasions there into what's now Pakistani Punjab eventually ending up in Western extremities of Rajasthan & from there to the rest of India.
Incidentally, IIRC the earliest attestation of the Rajputs in Indic literature dates back to very late 5th - early / middle 6th century CE, precisely around the time the Kidarite followed by the Alchon Huns ruled those parts of India where they've said to have emerged from as per atttested literary / epigraphic sources.
It's rather curious & too much of a coincidence.
@@ic5442 If you notice, then Rajput is a Sanskrit word not a Hunnic word.
Like I said the word Rajput is an umbrella word which includes Kshatriya clans of Northern, NW, South Central origin. It is not an ethnicity but a marking which later on became a "jati" sometime in the late medieval, early premodern era.
Don't show books behind you, it is charecter of pseudo bampanthy of Varat
I'm huna or Rajput
Both
No. कोई चने के झाड़ पर चढ़ाएगा, और तुम चढ़ जाओगे
@@aaryameena how rajputs are hunas.
@@Kushwahaji2708 if huns and rajputs are same , then how parmra rajput ruler sindhuraja (990 -1010 ce ) defated huns chiefs in and around modernday indore. Similarly sindhuraja ancestors vakpati munja (972-990 ce ) and siyaak Harsha [948 -972 ce ) defated local and petty huns chiefs in Malwa. This shows rajputs doesn't know evolved from huns or huns became rajputs. The 5/6 century huns have their separate identity in 10/11 century also. It is not easy to came into indian caste system, and in the case of huns it is impossible because of destruction they caused to india. IF YOU CAN REFUTE MY THIS STATEMENT, THEN OK , OTHERWISE IF REMAINS A COLONIAL PROGANADA.
@@Kushwahaji2708 and second thing huns invaded india from around mid 5 century ce , not 7 th century, , from early 6th to 7 th century huns were pushed outside by kings of tahnesar and malwa , yashodharman . Huns never get opportunity after this battle to established any strong and large kingdom. Hence they scattered into small outposts holders, discredited by Indians. They were later conquered by Parmra rajputs as I mentioned earlier.
Todaya rajputs are huns or sak
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Bro try to speak in hindi not every can understand English you will get better views
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Huns is Mongol
your history is backwards, it would be more correct to say that the huns and the mongols were both of the steppe nomadic peoples, the huns were hundreds of years older than the mongol empire
One point you missed is that Rajputs were huns that settled in India and adopted the culture
I don't think so, the Rajput's genetically aren't different from other communities. Especially there's no significant Central Asian ancestry.
I am rajput my dna shows dental Asian like Hepthalite ect so it defiantly got ground
Central*
@@supremercommonderbut that doesn't apply to all rajputs most probably your ancestors developed marriage alliances with huns that may be the cause.
Mihirakula was the most cruelest of Huns. He literally massacred the Buddhists of Kashmir to point of extinction and destroyed Takshashila university.
He also killed a lot of women seems like an incel.
@@Skyfather567what he killed woman?
@@prateekrai6260 he even killed his own wife for an example this man was a menace to society
@@Skyfather567 his wife is also from huns tribe?
Gurjar Samrat mihir kul Hoon ⚔️
Are rajputs huns descendants?
I don't think so.
@@kaydee3407 if hunas are rajputs ,then how did parmara rajput king sindhu raja (990-1015 ce) defeated local and petty hunas chiefs around indore .If hunas converted to rajputs,how they have their seperate identity even after 500 years.IRONY IS THAT PARMARA RAJPUTS ARE CONSIDERED AS HUNAS BY COLONIAL Historians.
@@ayushkumarsingh3029 bas kar de bhai huns scythians parthians aryans dravidan ye sab Indian ki genetics mai hha
Yes I did a dna test to confirm this with a American testing firm called tribes that will show the very specific breakdown where your ancestors come from